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TIL about Inspector Closeau, the world’s only known pink manta ray, first discovered in 2015 in waters off of Australia and named for the detective in the Pink Panther series

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M7AR0 TIL that every 50 years, the flowering of a species of bamboo in Northeast India and Northwest Myanmar causes a ''flood'' of black rats that feed on the nutritious bamboo seeds and widespread famine. The last bloom was in 2006.
AD9Wl TIL: The 2015 French Scrabble champion spoke no french, and instead memorized the French Scrabble dictionary 9 weeks before the tournament.
DQoEp TIL That Dreamworks owns the "film rights" to Martin Luther King Jr.'s quotes
jNRYM TIL the beard of Tutankhamun’s golden mask fell off during a cleaning process in the Egyptian Museum in 2014. The workers used epoxy glue to reattach the beard, but since it wasn’t the professional method and permanent damage had been done, they were prosecuted in 2016
OEyL TIL that the James Taylor song “Suite for 20 G” was so named because Taylor was promised $20,000 once the album was delivered. With one more song needed to finish the album, he strung together three unfinished songs into a “suite,” ensuring his payment.